Anton Giulio Bragaglia ( Italian: Anton Giulio Bragaglia ; February 11, 1890 , Frosinone - July 15, 1960 , Rome ) - Italian artist, photographer and film director, futurist , theater figure.
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Life and work
A.J. Bragaglia was born into the family of Francesco Bragaglia, one of the founders of Italian cinema, at the age of 16 he assisted in the directing work of his father. Despite the fact that some artists - members of the Milan futuristic group did not recognize independent art in photography (for example, Umberto Boccioni ), A.J. Bragaglia, as a photographer, establishes cooperation with the group, relying on the support of F. T. Marinetti and at the beginning of 1911 - together with his brother Arturo - founded a new, futuristic direction in artistic photography - photodynamism . In mid-1911, impressed by the futuristic performance of Boccioni on May 29 in Rome, Bragaglia creates the first photodynamic pictures.
The starting point in the photodynamic images was an arbitrary gesture or movement of people, under the illumination of numerous lamps, in bright light, as if tearing out every action from the surrounding darkness. As a result of a long time of clarification of the negative, the effect of a “luminous trace” from each movement was achieved. The artist sets forth his first thoughts on the subject of photodynamism back in 1910 , in 1911 he publishes a collection of essays Fotodinamismo , in 1912 he organizes a large exhibition of his works in Rome. In 1913, the Bragaglia brothers will improve their photography technique, achieving the so-called “sandwich effect”, in which several negatives are mounted one after another.
In 1916, A.J. Bragaglia creates his own film studio, where he puts, with the help of futurist artist Enrico Prampolini , 3 films. Of these films, only one has survived to the present day, but it is the only futuristic film that has survived to this day. In 1918 he founded the House of Arts of Braggalle in Rome, and in 1922 - the theater, then he worked as a theater director for a long time. In 1931, Brahaglia made another film, and since 1945 he has been working at UNESCO as a representative from Italy in the theater. At that time he also acted as an essayist and theater critic.
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Literature
- Sylvia Martin "Futurismus", Köln 2005.